Robbie Keane turned to the bench last night (Monday) after a bad move by Dor Peretz, kicked the grass and whispered some things towards the Maccabi Tel Aviv bench. The Irish coach didn't like the way his team looked against Maccabi Haifa in the game of the season, on the way to a second loss against the Greens. This time 2:0 in Sami Ofer. In Maccabi Tel Aviv they point to the bad start of the game as the key to the loss.
The yellows lost 8 balls in the first third of the field in 22 minutes and paid for it by conceding two early goals.
Dor Peretz, who lost the ball in the second goal, mentioned the player who lost 18 balls against the champion in the first loss against Mola in Bloomfield, when it comes to a player who until then had an average of only two turnovers per game.
The procurement brake, Matan Balatxa, admitted "because we played with fire in the first minutes and we paid for it. After that chasing Maccabi Haifa is difficult."
Players in Maccabi Tel Aviv admitted that they were surprised by the pressure from Maccabi Haifa, even though it happened to them for the second time in a row in front of them. At the end of the game, the team's players scolded each other with their hands over their mouths, trying not to let anyone see what was said. "There is criticism of many things, We know we weren't at our best," admitted players in Robbie Keane's team. The latter admitted at the end that "mistakes were made and if they hadn't been made, we would have won." Literally.
Now, after the loss, Maccabi Tel Aviv is afraid of losing first place after the court's decision that is expected to be published today, in which it will be decided whether the team will drop a league point following Derrick Lucassen's shot at him in the derby against Hapoel Tel Aviv.
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The association's prosecutor, attorney Nir Rashef, demanded that the point be reduced for the offense of fan rioting under aggravating circumstances, and the new penalty regulations mandate an automatic reduction of a point for a first conviction, without consideration by the judges. In Kiryat Shalom, they were satisfied that the decision was not published until last night's season game , but there is still an estimate that the point will be reduced, when the combination with last night's loss in the season game, will cost them the loss of the summit.
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